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The Civil Rights Movement
Trip Dates: July 28 - July 31, 2008
Open only to students (entering grades 9 - 12) who are enrolled in The Civil Rights Movement class in Ssummer School
This dynamic Summer Lab offering will take an in-depth look at the most important social movement in American History. The focus of the course will be on the sacrifices that thousands of people made to acquire basic human rights.
The last week of this six-week course features a four-day, course-culminatng trip to Georgia and Alabama. Trip highlights will include:
> The MLK Memorial in Atlanta, Ga.
> The Rosa Parks Museum and National Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala.
> The National Voting Rights Museum and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
> The Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, Kelly-Ingram Park, and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
In the classroom, students will read primary and secondary accounts of the struggle for equal rights, watch and analyze movies and documentaries, research and write about key leaders and events.
On the road, we will sing Motown and movement songs as we travel and eat “soul food” whenever possible!
Chaperone: Mr. Paul Horton
Cost: $950 (includes, subject to change, all transportation and lodging)